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Saving an image to the Photos library


When the user presses the Save button, we start the busy mode. Then, if the video camera is running, we prepare to save the next frame. Otherwise, we immediately save the processed version of the static image. Here is the event handler:

- (IBAction)onSaveButtonPressed {
  [self startBusyMode];
  if (self.videoCamera.running) {
    self.saveNextFrame = YES;
  } else {
    [self saveImage:self.imageView.image];
  }
}

A helper method, saveImage:, is responsible for the transactions with the filesystem and Photos library. First, we try to write a PNG file to the application's temporary directory. Then, we try to create an asset in the Photos library based on this file. As part of this process, the file is automatically copied. We call other helper methods to show an alert dialog, which will describe the success or failure of the transaction. Here is the method's implementation:

- (void)saveImage:(UIImage *)image {
  
  // Try to save the image to a temporary...
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Published in: Jun 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785289491

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Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media Corporation, which exists to support his books and to provide mentoring and consulting services, with a specialty in computer vision. On average, in 2015-2022, Joseph has written 1.4 new books or new editions per year for Packt. He also writes fiction, including an upcoming novel about the lives of a group of young people in the last days of the Soviet Union.
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